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Ten Gators Honored by League
November 21, 2006
All-NCAC Team (PDF)
CLEVELAND – Ten Allegheny College football players were chosen to the All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Team, including a trio of players, Curt Anderson (Batavia, N.Y./Notre Dame), Josh Whiteside (Pittsburgh, Pa./Upper St. Clair) and Jason Black (Warren, Ohio/Champion) who were named to the first team.
The Gators put four players, Mario Tarquinio (Charleroi, Pa./Charleroi), Justin Victor (Pittsburgh, Pa./Perry Traditional Academy), Tom Glamuzina (Williamsville, N.Y./St. Joseph’s) and Mateo Villa (Windsor, Ohio/Middlefield Cardinal) on the second team, while getting three players, Jimmy Savage (North Canton, Ohio/Hoover), Dallas Robinson (Wooster, Ohio/Northwestern) and Jim Lieb (Carrolltown, Pa./Northern Cambira) on the honorable mention squad.
Anderson, a junior safety, finished third on the team in tackles in 2006, picking up 54 total over his nine games, breaking up five passes and picking up 3.5 tackles for loss, spearheading a secondary that picked off 15 passes and allowed just 165 yards through the air per game, tops in the league.
Whiteside, a junior placekicker, connected on six of his seven field goal attempts, as his only miss of the season was blocked. He had a season-long kick of 47 yards in the driving wind and rain against Ohio Wesleyan, the third longest field goal in school history, as he also made good on 37-of-40 extra point attempts on the season. For the year he finished third on the squad in scoring and fourth among his NCAC kicking counterparts.
Black, a junior punter, was the conference leader in yards per kick, averaging 37.8 yards on his 27 attempts. He stopped six punts inside of the opponents’ 20-yardline, giving him 26 for his career. Over his three years, Black has averaged 37.7 yards per kick, third best career average in school history.
Tarquinio, a senior running back, rushed for 1,202 yards, an average of 120.2 per game, fourth best in the league, while scoring nine touchdowns. He Ended career with 3,187 yards, just the fourth running back in school history to eclipse the 3,000-yard plateau. His 1,202 yards this season marks the fifth best single season total in school history, giving him the fifth and sixth best marks (1,145 in 2004). Tarquinio also rushed for over 200 yards twice in the season, including a 252-yard effort against Kenyon in which he missed the school record by just seven yards.
Victor, a senior offensive tackle, earned honorable mention All-NCAC honors last season, and helped lead the balanced Allegheny offense to an average of 414.4 yards per game, third best in the league, giving up just 12 quarterback sacks on the season, second best in the league. The offense averaged 250.8 yards through the air and 163.6 on the ground.
Glamuzina, a senior defensive lineman, made the switch from defensive end to defensive tackle during the 2006 season to accommodate the new 3-4 defense, and flourished, picking up a career-high seven tackles for loss, while recording 46 tackles, 15 solo, two quarterback hurries, a fumble recovery and two blocked kicks.
Villa, one of the two starting middle linebackers in Allegheny’s new 3-4 defensive scheme, led the team in tackles with 80, 36 of those coming via a solo stop. The junior also had a team-high eight tackles for loss and two interceptions, which he returned for a combined 33 yards.
Savage re-wrote the Allegheny College single season record book during the 2006 season. The senior quarterback set school records in pass completions (202), attempts (331), yards (2,472) and touchdowns (24). He ended his career with 5,181 pass yards, just the third quarterback in school history to eclipse the 5,000-yard plateau, while finishing second in career attempts and completions. He also rushed the ball 63 times for 203 yards and a pair of scores on the season.
Robinson hauled in 56 of his classmate’s passes on the season for 795 yards and 11 touchdowns. He more than doubled his previous career numbers of 24 catches and 350 yards over his sophomore and junior seasons, and ended the season with the third most single season catches and the fifth most season yards in school history, while his 11 touchdowns was the second highest single season total in school history.
Lieb, a junior, had 48 catches on the year for 600 yards and four touchdowns, including an 83-yard score in the season finale against Oberlin. Also doubling as a kick returner, Lieb averaged 25 yards on his 13 returns, including an 85-yard return against Kenyon. For his career, Lieb has 83 receptions, which puts him in seventh place in the career record books with a season to play.